The mobility of terminals and users is a crucial issue in the open global system represented by the Internet. Supporting terminal and user mobility requires a middleware infrastru...
Paolo Bellavista, Antonio Corradi, Cesare Stefanel...
Conversations involving three or more agents often occur in multi-agent systems, for example in brokering and auction protocols typically used in e-commerce. For developing agents ...
This paper describes and evaluates three methods for coordinating multiple agents. These agents interact in two ways. First, they are able to work together to achieve a common poo...
Steve A. Chien, Anthony Barrett, Tara A. Estlin, G...
Many applied problems in domains such as military operations, manufacturing, and logistics require that entities change location under certain constraints. These problems are trad...
Self-reconfigurable or metamorphic robots can change their individual and collective shape and size to meet operational demands. Since these robots are constructed from a set of a...